Delta Variant is Spreading Like Wildfire in Florida

[NewRN'16]

And our governor does nothing about it. He even banned municipalities from enacting their own mandatory masks rules. I am truly terrified, even thought about leaving my job and start some travel assignments, just to get out of here. 

Almost no one is wearing masks in public establishments. Restaurants and attractions are at full capacity. We had 21,000 new cases of Covid 19 yesterday alone. ?

I am not looking forward to working on a Covid unit again. I know it's about to happen, but inside of me, I don't think I have the strength to go through it again. 

I am at a loss.. 

[SmilingBluEyes]

On 8/6/2021 at 3:25 PM, SunDazed said:

  If they don't care enough to protect the community, I do have a hard time caring for them. The first time around, it was patients who could have been safer but were not blatantly opposed to public health interventions.

 

I just hear all those phrases... when parents were not sympathetic to children who would not listen to their wisdom. "I told you so" and "well, don't come crying to me when you end up sick"

 

It's hard for me to care either. I try but I just can't feel sorry for those who cry "please vaccinate me" on their deathbed. They had a lot of time and advice to do so for a long time now.

[SunDazed, BSN, RN]

36 minutes ago, toomuchbaloney said:

What was the reason that they were out of their "homes" and familiar care settings? Covid was the reason. They were infected and required additional care that took them out of the optimal dementia care environment.  

Were you in an acute care setting when Covid first hit? Or now? Do you know how long it takes for some patients, who no longer need acute level care, to find a place to fully recover? 

Nursing homes, assisted living, and basically all communal type living arrangements were scared to take residents/patients back once they no longer needed acute level supportive care, and by the way were no longer contagious.

It took public health working with those facilities to figure out what was safe and what was risky. There was a steep learning curve in the beginning of the pandemic. For instance, if one of these folks getting the flu or a pneumonia needed to come to the hospital they would simply discharge back to their "home" when they were well enough. Instead the quarantine period passed, and the swabs kept coming back +, so the facilities would not accept them back to their "homes".

Sure Covid symptoms brought them to the hospital, but when that was no longer a threat, they should have been able to go home. 

[toomuchbaloney]

1 hour ago, SunDazed said:

Were you in an acute care setting when Covid first hit? Or now? Do you know how long it takes for some patients, who no longer need acute level care, to find a place to fully recover? 

Nursing homes, assisted living, and basically all communal type living arrangements were scared to take residents/patients back once they no longer needed acute level supportive care, and by the way were no longer contagious.

It took public health working with those facilities to figure out what was safe and what was risky. There was a steep learning curve in the beginning of the pandemic. For instance, if one of these folks getting the flu or a pneumonia needed to come to the hospital they would simply discharge back to their "home" when they were well enough. Instead the quarantine period passed, and the swabs kept coming back +, so the facilities would not accept them back to their "homes".

Sure Covid symptoms brought them to the hospital, but when that was no longer a threat, they should have been able to go home. 

And when they went home people freaked out for a spell.  This was a novel virus.  There was politicized leadership from the federal government..a vacuum of real or meaningful leadership, actually. 

[Tenebrae, BSN, RN]

New Zealand has gone back into lock down over one case in the community that has been proven to be the delta strain (Linked to the NSW outbreak)

So far that one case has turned into 21 cases (all cases are linked) in less than 2 days. Auckland where the cases are located however the entire country is in lock down for three days. Auckland at this stage is facing a week in level 4 and more likely longer. Some of the hotspots include a university lecture (think 100plus people in a room), church services, packed pubs)

People have their opinions about lock down and they are entitled to those. The fact that 1 person can infect 21 other people over a short space of time terrifies me.  And the experts are thinking that the intial case that triggered this lock down is not the index case and hundreds of people could be infected in this outbreak. 

OP. I feel your pain. At least for us we have halfway compentent leadership who are informed about the risks of this